70s life of peace in Australia Sun shinning around you. You felt the breeze of freedom.❤ Pinballs machine in your favourite take away shop waiting for your hot wrapped chips and milkshake and the jukeboxe playing this song. I know grew up in the take away shop opposite Canterbury station living above listening to all of the hit songs from the jukebox downstairs. Australia 💕 Christina
@magpie44 Wow Wagga Wagga in the 70s would have been interesting. It's growing now Wagga I believe we were the lucky ones growing up in the 70s. I still play them when I see one 🤭
Wow, yeah, I remember this song. I was just out of school and a student at Randwick technical college and bought my first car. I also became an active musician and played in several bands for several years after that. This song as well as "A little ray of sunshine" by Axiom are very much in my heart forever. Cherished memories.
@@colinlatham7905 I'll be gone - Spectrum, Gypsy Queen - Country Radio, My Baby's Gone - Axiom, Turn up your radio - Master's Apprentices, The Boys Light up - Australian Crawl. Easy.
Born in 1950...I grew up in the best time ever...this song is a true classic...thanks Mike...hope you are traveling well...thanks for the memories!!!!!
I used to sneak into my older sister's room when I was about 12 and listen to all her records. This was one of my favourites, among many. She had good taste. ... I miss her.
Ah Spectrum so cool man. I first saw Spectrum at the 1970 Cobram Peaches and Cream festival playing in a sheep shearing shed somewhere around Cobram way? The main concert was on "the beach" (Murray River) Can't remember if it was called Thompsons beach. There were logs on the sand which we rested against. I don't remember to much about the entire gigs as i was a very naughty person. 😩😵💫Then a year or so passed and was fantastic cruising around in my EH Holden singing I'll Be Gone which was played regularly. So many Aussie's from 60's bands chopped and changed and moved on to form other bands/or play in other bands. Seventies music then became even more fantastic. I'm an old man now on the outside but inside my mind is firmly entrenched "still" in the 60's and 70's forever. Peace.
Takes me straight back to Sydney Town Hall concerts circa 1971. Bit of a North Shore music groupie back then....but at least we had great music. None of the horrible bs that came once the Countdown era started.
Born '63 I had no idea about these dudes. Just old enough to remember dudes with long hair and flares. In hindsight, it seems that culture really changed after '72. By '74 it was bogan culture big time. Hippies were kind of old. Sharpie cardigans. Rough ..Ted Mulry ACDC Evie let your hair hang down..and the ever sweet laid-back music of the '70- '71 period was gone. 'Come Back Again' please.
Billy Thorpe used to perform this song not long before he passed away in early 2007. I saw and heard him perform it at Capers Restaurant at Hawthorn, Victoria in November 2006 where he received three standing ovations in a row by the live audience that were there. Surely, they must have did a recording at the sound desk, but I can’t remember who was doing the sound that night, but possibly it may have been either Peter Fearn or Trevor Reading? Billy Thorpe also performed other songs recorded by the Masters Apprentices such as “Because I Love You” and said that they amongst sone of the greatest songs of his era. I don’t know why Billy’s version of this song was never released on his live CD? I don’t have this song that Billy Thorpe used to perform, but I wish I did have his version of “I’ll Be Gone”because he did a great version of it.
Classic Aussie song. For some reason I always associate this song with “Way out West” by the Dingoes as the two quintessential Australian ballads of the era.
One of my favourite songs of the time. I wish songs of today we're like this, but today's singers have got to get their heads out of the sand to come up with something as good as this classic.
I remember seeing the band in Adelaide about 1973 , huge old building and I think a battle of the bands happening in various areas of the building. Just wish I could remember it better. :) Fantastic song. brings back memories.
Thanks Mike for the memories and a GREAT song, it was released when I was 14 years old, made a big impression on me then, still love it to this day. Heard it on the radio yesterday and was instantly back in 1971! Wonderful!!! X
I Saw Mike play this on the steps of the Sydney Opera House many many years ago. I was about 15 then I have loved it since. It has been a huge part of the "Aussie Rock Scene" it is in the same league as The Real Thing or Turn Up Your Radio or Friday On My Mind, all true classics.
I grew up listening to Spectrum daily. I still can't get enough of them. I have every album that Mike Rudd ever released. The greatest Aussie band ever. The album Milesago especially, was miles ahead of anything in its time. Loved them then, still love them now!
This is one of the greatest tunes you will find. It will resonate in your mind for quite a while, and then, like me, you will have to search for it. That is the best music, the ones you have to have. Where are you now Spectrum, because you need to ...
Wwonderful memories flood back of my childhood in Sydney when I first heard this incredible song. My dad loved it, played it and sang along with great pleasure...he's gone. love you and miss you dad R.I.P.
I have always loved this song Mike .. your harp playing is second to none .. I play guitar & a little harp (just started) .. the tab looks too complex for me at this stage .. so I'll have to listen to you play it .. I'm 63 .. LOVED being a baby boomer .. thanks for the memory mate .. ;-)
This must've been an alternative mix because the reprise verse after the bridge is the 'money' verse and not the 'loving' verse as on the single - you can see I fluff the mime. These days we reprise the 'money' verse and everybody sings along. Hooray!
Would be in my top ten Oz rock songs of all time ..first enjoyed it as a 14 year old and had the pleasure of having Mike involved at an event at the Mornington Peninsula Blues Sessions in 2016 .Hearing this song at my event was a very special moment for me and the musos involved not to mention the crowd! Timeless gold that will live on.RIP gentleman Bill Putt-Mikes other musical half..music lives forever!
Interesting how this one song seems to represent an entire generation of Australian Men (in particular), you hear that opening Harmonica riff and you get instant rapport. Congratulations on writing a near-perfect Blues/Pop song, no easy feat. I just love this song.
Thanks for the happy memories, Mike, and thank you NZ for another quality export. The Oz scene wouldn't have been the same without this talented 'war baby'. (For anybody appreciative of Spectrum's brand of music, have a dekko at their alter-egos, The Indelible Murtceps. There's a great clip of them playing at T F Much Ballroom on here somewhere.)
Great find Mike! My favourite gig was under the Harbour Bridge during the opening of the Opera House by the Queen '73 What a great day! Finch, Ariel and Buffalo. Then just as Buffalo were starting a big storm hit and blew everyone off the hill. That was classic
Quite timeless. To think that this hit number one exactly 45 years ago! this has a dope break around the 2:50 mark that I have sampled and looped for the fun of it in the past. I'm surprised that no Aussie hip hoppers have used it in a track (that I'm aware of). intended to myself before being inflicted with a 20-year bout of writer's block.
I played harp with Chris Lofven, the film maker who shot this wonderful video, last weekend up in Noosa. Chris is a lovely guy and and solid U-bass player. Each time I hear that recording of I'll Be Gone I get more out of it, it's a treasure trove of musical delights!
this song to everyone my age, meant hitting the road and probably hitch hiking to anywhere but home. I never did it, but it still evokes that feeling in me today
we?appear quite relaxed?whooo you must be one of the dudes in this clip..love the harp,the song,the message..and ...all the ol amps that i cant read the brands of...must of been so great cruising around our music scene back then..wish i was born years earlier..haha great perf on rockwiz too by the way..awesome
Saw you perform this at the Wagga Wagga Jazz and Blues Festival. Was one of those bucket list moments to see you not only perform live, but very up close and personal. Was a fantastic moment for me and brings a smile and good memories whenever I recollect.
Ben Burndred Yes, but uncanny that it was heading in that direction. Aussie music was very unique in the 70’s & up there with big international artists. We had brilliant muso’s emerging during that era - great talent & originality. Classic Aussie gold. I loved our music much more than a lot of the imported commercial bands thrust down our throats. The 80’s was a different time however where UK bands killed it after emerging from the punk/new age era, we lacked in that sound during that period but still had some top bands exploring that genre. Much of the music of today doesn’t excite me - especially female artists - they all sound constipated lol.
I saw spectrum at the middle pub in healesville i think the bass player and mike were the only originals they were great...mike actually sopke to me WOW I grew up with my sister knocking around with the town cryers in ringwood and they wore the record out...still play it at gigs. thanks for the music
This was the last track played on 3AK Melbourne "Where no Wrinklies fly" before changing to "Beautiful music",and was the last track played on 3XY Melbourne before they folded.
